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Jennifer Garner inhabits her role with earnest gusto, but Elektra's tone deaf script is too self-serious and bereft of intelligent dialogue to provide engaging thrills.
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If the film isn't as bad as some others in the comics-to-cinema genre (Halle Berry's Catwoman has rather lowered the bar), that's not to say it's good. Jul 14, 2015 | Full Review…
If the film isn't as bad as some others in the comics-to-cinema genre (Halle Berry's Catwoman has rather lowered the bar), that's not to say it's good.
Paul Byrnes
There isn't a whisper of spontaneity. Jul 14, 2015 | Full Review…
There isn't a whisper of spontaneity.
David Edelstein
The movie's dominant visual tone is bronzed grunge, and its emotional tone is depressive. Jul 14, 2015 | Full Review…
The movie's dominant visual tone is bronzed grunge, and its emotional tone is depressive.
Joe Morgenstern
This doesn't exactly set the world on fire, but I was charmed by its old-fashioned storytelling, which is refreshingly free of archness, self-consciousness, or Kill Bill-style wisecracks. Mar 5, 2007 | Full Review…
This doesn't exactly set the world on fire, but I was charmed by its old-fashioned storytelling, which is refreshingly free of archness, self-consciousness, or Kill Bill-style wisecracks.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Everything comes back to Garner, though -- and even when the movie takes itself too seriously, thankfully she never does. Mar 5, 2007
Everything comes back to Garner, though -- and even when the movie takes itself too seriously, thankfully she never does.
Christy Lemire
Elektra shoves Frank Miller's eponymous cold-blooded assassin into a PG-13-friendly adventure. Oct 6, 2006 | Full Review…
Elektra shoves Frank Miller's eponymous cold-blooded assassin into a PG-13-friendly adventure.
Keith Phipps
This movie passes the Bechdel Test and the Knope Friendship Test. It's also way better than it gets credit for. Aug 29, 2018 | Full Review…
This movie passes the Bechdel Test and the Knope Friendship Test. It's also way better than it gets credit for.
Leona Laurie
Garner, who showed a promising comic touch last year in 13 Going On 30, does her movie career no favors here. Jul 14, 2015 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Garner, who showed a promising comic touch last year in 13 Going On 30, does her movie career no favors here.
Leah Rozen
The problem is Elektra is not among the most compelling of characters. She doesn't have enough humanity and the story not enough depth to sustain us between fight scenes. Jul 14, 2015 | Full Review…
The problem is Elektra is not among the most compelling of characters. She doesn't have enough humanity and the story not enough depth to sustain us between fight scenes.
Matthew Reynolds
Worth a look. Jul 14, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Worth a look.
Megan Spencer
Daredevil's lady friend Elektra gets a solo outing in this insipid action adventure. Jul 14, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Daredevil's lady friend Elektra gets a solo outing in this insipid action adventure.
Sloan Freer
Even the action scenes flirt with tedium. Jul 14, 2015 | Full Review…
Even the action scenes flirt with tedium.
John Hartl
By far, the absolute worst Marvel movie to date. "Elektra" is a spin off of "Daredevil" and completely goes off the tracks with a bad story, and horrible acting. Jennifer Garner stars as "Elektra" a hired assassin who has come back from the dead and reunited with her old sensei Stick(Terence Stamp). She's hired to kill a father and daughter, but her conscience kicks in and she protects them instead of killing them. "Daredevil" is a superhero movie that is over the top, but in a lot of ways based in reality. Here, "Elektra" just moves into this supernatural-esque world, that doesn't make any sense. There's a guy with tattoos that come to life, a woman who turns people to stone(kind of) with a kiss, it just seemed so fake and ridiculous, it's hard to take any of this movie seriously. I know, I know, how can you say this is fake when you love a movie like "Thor?" Watch both of them, and tell me which seems more realistic. Garner may be hot, but my god she can't act in this movie. She just has this pouty look on her face the whole time, and the father/daughter duo, I was hoping like hell they would die. Skip this absolute turd of a movie, and watch "Daredevil" again, or any other movie for that matter.
Super Reviewer
Jennifer Garner is a sweet-faced assassin and she works hard in the fight scene. But this version of the Marvel Comics character, and spin-off from 2003's Daredevil, lacks backbone. On the plus side, rival assassins such as Tattoo, whose tattoos turn into fighting accessories, are imaginative; the photography is first-class. But the film stalls in ridiculousness: for example, Elektra's corset-and-heels fight outfits.
A lot better then I expected. A pretty okay story and somewhat entertaining. Definitely watchable.
Good fight scenes and a much more plausible story line than I expected. I think this movie gets slammed far more than it should.
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